IDK who needs to hear this but in the context of COVID “driven” is a term that implies a level of causal primacy which is almost always untrue and for the establishment of which we generally do not have sufficient data nor methods.

Our data and methods can tell us whether an activity or a location is one cause among many. For COVID, places that facilitate transmission include bars and restaurants and schools and nursing homes and prisons and workplaces and households and parties and so so many others

We do not collect the right data nor, in absence of data, have good methods to identify which is the PRIMARY cause of the pandemic. We do not establish for each case where & from whom that person got infected nor where & to whom they transmitted. We do not identify every case.

In all truth, it is likely that there is not one single primary transmission source. If we prevent transmission in one place, it can and likely will still happen other places. There is no single “driver” of the pandemic.

When people say “X is not a driver of COVID” they are playing you.

They are trading on the ambiguity of the word “driver” to imply both “one cause of transmission among many” and “the only cause of transmission which if we could stop would mean no more infections”.

Yes, X is almost certainly NOT the one and only cause or facilitator of transmission. No, that does not mean that X is not a place or activity where significant amounts of transmission occurs.

Stop looking for an easy fix.